Current Affairs Quiz 6th and 7th September 2026 Quiz

Ans.b

Explanation:

• India is hosting the three-day BRICS Chief Justices’ Forum 2026 in New Delhi from September 4 to 6, 2026.
• Aims: Discuss contemporary issues concerning justice delivery, international dispute resolution, technology and sustainable development, while facilitating an exchange of views among judicial leaders.
• The forum has brought together Chief Justices, Presidents of Supreme Courts and senior judicial leaders from BRICS Member States and Partner Countries.

Ans.c

Explanation:

• The inaugural iBRICS Summit 2026 will take place on September 12–13, 2026, at The Oberoi in New Delhi, convening on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit to connect over $1 trillion in sovereign and private capital with major infrastructure, energy, and digital projects.

Focus Areas

• Direct Deal-Making: Matching global allocators and project owners from 21 BRICS member states and partner nations.
• Sectors: Infrastructure, energy, and digital-capacity expansion.
• Financial Infrastructure: Discussions on non-dollar settlement corridors, linking fast-payment networks (such as India’s UPI and Brazil’s Pix), and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) interoperability.

Ans.c

Explanation:

• Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan attended the Fisheries Outreach Programme at Agatti, Lakshadweep, and released “Mission Rangeen Machhli 2031”, the Strategic Action Plan for Ornamental Fisheries Development.
• He also distributed various government benefits and assistance to beneficiaries from the fisheries sector.
• The Vice President described the event as a historic milestone for Lakshadweep and a new milestone in India’s Blue Revolution.

Ans.b

Explanation: The Bank of Canada unveiled a new $20 banknote featuring King Charles III. It marks the first time his portrait has appeared on a Canadian banknote and the first change of monarch on the country’s notes in more than seven decades.

Ans.d

Explanation:

• Nvidia is moving to acquire artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at roughly $13 billion, giving the chipmaker a much larger position in the open-source AI ecosystem it already supplies with computing hardware.
• The acquisition comes as Nvidia looks beyond the processors that have powered much of the AI boom and builds deeper ties with the developers, researchers and companies creating and deploying AI models.

Ans.b

Explanation:

• Razorpay on September 2 launched an AI-powered account manager on WhatsApp that allows businesses to access payment information, seek support and carry out certain payment-related actions through messages or voice notes.
• Businesses can ask RAY for information such as payment summaries and transaction analysis. The AI assistant can also perform certain actions, including generating payment links and initiating refunds, without requiring users to access Razorpay’s dashboard.

Ans.b

Explanation: Surgeon Vice Admiral Dilip Raghavan assumed the appointment of Director General Armed Forces Medical Services. He joined AFMC Pune in 1985 and was commissioned into the Indian Navy in December 1989.

Ans.d

Explanation:

• The 36th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony on September 3, 2026, honored quirky and imaginative scientific achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.

Notable 2026 Winners

• Chemistry Prize: Awarded to an international team including Indian researchers from InStem Bengaluru for discovering that protein crystals in Pacific beetle cockroach milk contain over three times the energy of cow’s milk.
• Medicine Prize: Awarded posthumously to Dr. Tokuji Unno for a 1977 aerodynamic study on how humans blow their noses.
• Biology Prize: Went to researchers who gently stepped on venomous pit vipers wearing boots to see what triggers a bite.
• Economics Prize: Honored a study revealing that upper-class individuals are more prone to taking candy meant for children.
• Soil Science Prize: Awarded for the “Underwear as Evidence” project using buried cotton underpants to measure soil health.
• Other Honors: Included research on the evolutionary history of kissing, which you can read more about in this report from Nature.

Note:

• New Location: Hosted in Zurich, Switzerland, marking the first time the ceremony moved outside the United States due to travel and visa concerns.
• Prizes: Winners received a custom trophy shaped like a mushroom and a human foot, plus a 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollar symbolic banknote.

Ans.b

Explanation:

• In September 2026, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) announced the winners of the ‘Green Highways Excellence Awards 2026’, instituted to recognise and promote best practices in National Highway (NH) landscaping and plantation management.
• Category I: Avenue Plantations: Chilakaluripet Bypass (NH-16, Vijayawada) – 1st, Vadodara–Kim Expressway (Gandhinagar) – 2nd, NH-925/925A sections (Jaipur) – 3rd, and Trichy–Karaikudi maintenance project (Madurai) – Consolation.
• Category II: Median Plantations: Hyderabad–Yadgiri (NH-163, Hyderabad) – 1st, Vadodara–Kim Expressway (Gandhinagar) – 2nd, Varanasi Ring Road (NH-31, UP East) – 3rd.
• Category III: Plantation in Land Parcels: Jamtha Clover Leaf, NH-44 (Nagpur) – 1st, ToT Bundle-7 land parcels, Duhai (Delhi) – 2nd, Lucknow–Ayodhya & Outer Ring Road (UP West) – 3rd.

Ans.b

Explanation:

• The Indian Air Force has recorded a notable advance in home-grown precision-strike technology after a successful drop trial of the Long Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) Khagantak-243, a weapon designed and built entirely within the country.
• The exercise was carried out on 2 September and is being read as a landmark for both the air force and the domestic defence manufacturing sector.

Ans.c

Explanation: Argentina won the 2026 Women’s FIH Hockey World Cup by defeating host nation Netherlands in a penalty shootout at the Wagener Stadium in Amsterdam. It was Argentina’s third women’s World Cup title.

Ans.d

Explanation: Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2026 on August 29, 2026, in Newport, Rhode Island. He is a 20-time Grand Slam champion and retired from professional tennis in 2022.